Unwilling Participant in History

Today, I was an unwilling participant in history.  You see, I was stuck in traffic with two of the kids for close to one hour waiting for a very important person to pass by.  This very important person requires over 100 police officers on motorcycles to escort him wherever he goes.  The motorcycles are followed by a cavalcade of Suburbans and full size vans.  This cavalcade is then followed by 3 full size buses - one of which supposedly carried this very important person.

The most frustrating thing was all I needed to do was cross the street and I would have been happily on my way home from church.  As it was, I sat 4 cars from said street for an HOUR while waiting for this very important person to finally go speeding down the road at 60-70 mph.

I did try to turn lemons into lemonade.  You see, while we waited, we discussed the following:

the very important person,

his special group of law enforcement officers (they are a very secret bunch),

why security is so important,

methods of protection for this very important person

four former very important people who were assassinated

the people convicted/charged with their assassination

attempted assassinations on these very important people

So, I figure this counts as 1 hr of American History for our high school curriculum.